Readers - a cautionary note!
Hey guys; I have just had a three star review of 'Jack Ketch's Puppets' with a few comments that annoyed me. I appreciate the comments or the review rating could have been worse, but something that was said worried me. Why did it worry me? Because a few weeks ago, another friend of mine said a similar thing. It was only when I sat and talked with him that he understood what I had done, and thus, I understood what he had said. 'Jack Ketch's Puppets' and my 'Borough Boys' series is set in 1850s Leicester, England. Much of the way that it is written reflects the language and dialect of the time, where I have chosen to use it. Consequently, what my friend thought was carelessness and spelling mistakes or grammar inaccuracies were in fact deliberately 'penned' to reflect the age and the background of my characters. To someone who has been taught English to rules, it must seem that it is festooned with errors, but please, believe me, many are